Pills & Protest: Abortion Access in Ireland by Brenna McCaffrey
Tue, Mar 17, 2026
2:00 PM–3:30 PM
This virtual event will take place online via Zoom. Free and open to all. Please register to attend online.
Join us for a book talk featuring CUNY Graduate Center’s Anthropology PhD and Master’s in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies certificate alum, Brenna McCaffrey, as we discuss the research that went into Pills & Protest: Abortion Access in Ireland, her newest publication. For more of Brenna’s work, click here. Check out the CUNY Graduate Center’s news feature describing her work here.
About the Book
Pills & Protest: Abortion Access in Ireland tells the story of how feminist activists strategically used abortion pills to help people while abortion was illegal and to influence the legal and medical changes to come. Drawing on three years of interviews with activists, doctors, and politicians in Ireland, Brenna McCaffrey illuminates the story of how the abortion pill transitioned from a controversial object to a legally recognized medical solution, demonstrating how understanding medication abortion is essential to understanding reproductive healthcare in Ireland – and globally – today. Learn more about the book here.
This event is co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Women in Society, the Master’s in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program, and the Center for the Humanities.